GLASGOW. Albion Street. HSCP HQ
Glasgow HSCP Cuts protest.
Trade Unions protest against Glasgow HSCP Cuts
UNISON, GMB and Unite hold a lunchtime protest today, Tuesday 19th March against cuts to NHS and Social Care.
Funding has been slashed by Glasgow City Council and NHS, meaning the Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership is implementing over £36m in cuts.
Hundreds of NHS and social care jobs will be deleted, and there will be a significant delay in recruitment for other posts.
The trade unions are demanding that the eight Glasgow City Councillors and eight NHS Health Board members with voting rights on the Integrated Joint Board (IJB) refuse to pass these cuts, and fight for more money for the city.
Stuart Graham, UNISON Social Work Convener, said:
" The consequences of last year’s cuts are still reverberating around services delivered by Glasgow HSCP. Cutting a further £36m from the NHS and social care budget will be nothing short of catastrophic.
Our political representatives should stand up and fight for more money for Glasgow, instead of administering more cuts passed down by various tiers of government. Glasgow needs more workers, not less!
The overwhelming majority accepts that the NHS and local government are underfunded, yet no one is prepared to take stand to do anything about it. On top of this, Glasgow’s funding allocation does not recognise its metropolitan status, or its high levels of poverty. This city deserves better”.
Margaret McCarthy UNISON Assistant Branch Secretary said,
"Cuts to NHS and social care posts will impact on all aspects of the NHS, Acute, A&E and delayed discharges, meaning patient can't be admitted to hospital for the vital treatment they need. NHS staff are already exhausted, the NHS has been running on goodwill and that goodwill has run out."
